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Alison Cherry

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Alison Cherry

Alison Cherry grew up in Evanston, IL, then went to Harvard and got a degree in photography. Then ahw spent the next three years as a freelance lighting designer for various theaters throughout the Northeast. Eventually, she got tired of hanging out on ladders and wrestling with faulty electrical equipment for 80 hours a week while getting paid almost nothing. She spent the next four years working as a photographer for the Metropolitan Opera. Now she lives in Brooklyn and writes full-time. Her debut young adult novel, RED, is coming from Delacorte in the fall of 2013.

Drummer Phoebe Byrd is ready to kick all the guys' butts in the snare solo competition at the Indoor Percussion Association Convention. Writer Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan has been looking forward to the WTFcon for months --- it's where she'll finally meet Soleil, her internet girlfriend, for the first time. Taxidermy assistant Callie Buchannan might be good at scooping brains out of deer skulls, but that doesn't mean it's her passion; it's the only way Callie knows to connect with her taxidermist dad. When a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against a chaotic background of cosplay, competition and carcasses!

Brooklyn Shepard's theater apprenticeship at Allerdale is a chance to prove that she can carve out a niche all her own, surrounded by people who don’t know anything about her or her family of superstar performers. Brooklyn immediately hits it off with her roommate, Zoe, and soon their friendship turns into something more. She’s happier than she’s ever been --- but is it because of her new relationship? Or is it because she’s finally discovering who she wants to be?

Felicity St. John has it all and her perfect life is possible because of her red hair. That’s why Felicity is terrified when she receives a note:I know your secret.Because Felicity's color comes straight out of a bottle. She isn’t about to let someone blackmail her life away. But just how far is she willing to go to protect her red cred?